Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1795 Pingwa ([-]) Record
Song Yingchang's order was full of temptations, but Li Rusong's reaction was unexpectedly good. After receiving the order, Zha Dashou dispatched troops to go out soon. Among them, Li Rusong even temporarily added a batch of newly arrived Jinghua Mu The handle grenade, which is the so-called hand grenade in later generations.

But what Song Yingchang didn't know was that Li Rusong had already got in touch with Gao Yushi during this period of time, and the reason why the dispatch of troops was not compromised at all was mainly because Gao Yushi had made some promises to him.Of course, at the same time, Li Chengliang's reply letter also arrived, which probably means that he and Gao Wushi have already negotiated, and the two sides have reached some principled consensus on the loss of Li Jiajun in the Korean battlefield.

The source of this problem is actually a bit complicated, mainly in two aspects.The first aspect is that the core force of the Li family army is the servants, but usually the so-called [-] Li family troops are not all calculated according to the servants at the level of "staffing", and only [-] of them are actually received from the imperial court.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty is very messy now. For the generals, the army under their hands can often be divided into several levels: the commander's own personal soldiers, the family general's personal soldiers, ordinary conscripts, and guard soldiers.

Here, the ones with the best treatment and the strongest fighting power are the commander's own personal soldiers. For example, the thousand elites that Li Rusong personally brought over during the Battle of Bi Tiao Pavilion are of this level, and they are also the core combat power of the Li family army. It can even be regarded as the cornerstone of the Tieling Li family as the world's leading general.

For Li Rusong, this kind of personal soldiers who are all servants is the backbone of the government subsidy but loyal to him or Li Chengliang himself, and it is the foundation for the Li family to maintain the status of generals.

Among the "Li Family Army", the army that is second only to the "Great Marshal's Family Ding's Personal Soldiers" is the personal soldiers of family members and generals. Shou and even Yang Yuan are the personal soldiers of the generals of the Li family army.

If you want to force an analogy in this situation, you will have a feeling of "the vassal of my vassal is not my vassal", but this is not complete. After all, the era of "feudalism in a narrow sense" in China has long passed.In fact, as long as the prestige of the commander himself is high enough, he still has the ability to directly give orders to "vassals of my vassals", and these "vassals of my vassals" dare not violate them.

However, under the actual situation of the servant system, in theory, "my servant's servant" is indeed not "my servant". "I" only relies on my great prestige and the power to kill those generals who have become the chief generals of "I" but who were originally "my servants", thus indirectly possessing the deterrent power against "servants of servants".

Then a problem arises in this way: if "I" loses such prestige and the power of life and death over the generals who were originally my servants, then those "servants of servants" who have more numbers can still obey to me?Maybe they will obey for a while, but "I"'s deterrence against them will continue to decline until it collapses.

With such an explanation, Li Rusong's performance can be reasonably explained: Zu Chengxun, Zha Dashou, and other generals of the Li family army who were born in the direct descendants but did not really have the surname Li. It is acceptable to say that, because as long as the Tieling Li family is still strong and their political status is still stable, these losses can be made up for in the future.

However, if the core strength of the Li family in Tieling itself collapses, things will become complicated: how do you know that these "generals who are not direct descendants of the Li surname" have no desire to stand on their own?How do you know that the court didn't want them to stand on their own?Once they all set up their own families, can the Tieling Li family be considered the number one general in the world?
Taking the Ma family, Ma family, and Liu family as the original "three generals" under Gao Yushi, the Ma family and Ma family that belonged to the Northern Army system were all maintained by their own generals who directly controlled the troops.For example, in addition to Ma Gui, the current head of the Ma family, there are also a large number of nephew generals such as Ma Chengen and Ma Chengxun; after Ma Fang retired from the Ma family, the Ma Dong and Ma Lin brothers also took charge of their own troops. They also brought their own children and nephews under their hands.

The only exception is the Liu family. After Liu Xian, only Liu Ting, the only son of the Liu family, is in charge of the army.Although Liu Xin also had a relatively small number of soldiers and horses, but because she herself was a woman and was not born as a chieftain, this soldier and horse only existed in the establishment of the Ming court during the Yunnan-Burma War. Nominally, it is still affiliated with Liu Ting.

As for later, this army simply broke away from the Ming establishment and was taken to the southern border by Liu Xin. It is currently thrown in Dingnan as part of the garrison of the Siamese palace in name, but actually it is under the command of Huang Zhiting.

In Liu Ting's army, because he didn't have enough blood relatives, he implemented a system similar to that of the Li family army (but it should be noted that there were not many blood relatives in the Li family army). son) to command the entire army.

Here it is necessary to extend the discussion of the difference: for generals, blood relatives must be the most credible force, because under the current system, blood relatives of generals can maintain unity. After all, their strength is great when they are united. Easier to maintain in the long run.

The adopted son model can usually be maintained between one or two generations, but the adopted sons are often rewarded to change their original surnames after they are powerful, and as time goes by, they often become new generals alone after varying lengths of time, so Basically out of the control of the original general - of course, they will generally maintain a special relationship, but it is usually just for face, if there is a conflict of interest, their own interests must prevail.

Li Rusong lost some of his immediate family members during the war against the Yuan Dynasty, so Li Chengliang broke his confession in anger. The core is directly under the servant.

The loss of more than 2000 people seems to be not much for the Li family army with [-] troops, but because it is a loss of core strength, it actually has a considerable impact on the "general system" of the Li family in Tieling, so Li Rusong only I had to retreat back to Pyongyang, and on the one hand, I sought the understanding of my father Li Chengliang, and on the other hand, I hurriedly tried to make up for these losses.

Obviously, the consensus reached by Li Chengliang and Gao Yushi was naturally aimed at supplementing the core strength of Li Jiajun.They replied to Li Rusong that the family members directly under him in the Korean battlefield were lost. The household department and the military department will work together to ensure that the troops are fully replenished. Equipment is given priority.

The reason why Zha Dashou's department was able to send troops immediately in response to Song Yingchang's dispatch, was inseparable from Li Rusong's guarantee.Of course, even so, Li Rusong will obviously become more cautious in the next battle.

After all, as long as the Ministry of War is willing to provide the establishment and the Ministry of Households is willing to give money to the issue of soldiers, it is indeed easier to supplement, but if too many recruits are recruited into an elite at once, can this "elite" be considered a real elite? It's hard to say.

Fortunately, what Song Yingchang wanted to transfer was only the Ministry of Investigation, and what he wanted to test was Li Rusong's attitude towards the execution of his orders, so Li Rusong could save a lot of worries and just agree directly.

From Li Rusong's point of view, even if Zha Da's department is damaged, as long as the Li family is still there, it will be able to make up for him sooner or later, and he needs to rely on the Li family even more after losing his strength. This is not only a trouble, but an opportunity.

Speaking of the Japanese army, at this time the general of the Japanese army, Ukita Hideka, saw that all three battles had been lost, and he was really mad with anger, and roared furiously: "Incompetent! A group of incompetent people! The Battle of Bizhiguan faced tens of thousands of Ming troops. They were able to repel them, but now facing thousands of North Korean underdogs, our army has been unable to attack them repeatedly! I would like to ask you, what is the power of going straight to Hanyang in the past month and winning every battle! "

The Ukita Hide family has a special status, but they don’t usually get angry very often. At this time, when they were furious, President Konishi, Ishida Mitsunari, and Kuroda Nagamasa all had dark faces but dared not say anything, which made the Ukita Hide family fully experience The authority of a general.Then Ukita Hideka decided to personally lead the fourth team to attack Xingju!

Seeing the general came out, the Japanese army's morale was greatly increased, and they rushed forward regardless of everything. Naturally, the front team suffered many casualties, but at this time, the Japanese army was not afraid, and they went forward one by one, and finally broke through the first fence.

Immediately, the Japanese army deployed iron artillery arrays relying on the bunker, and began to fight back at the Korean defenders, while the rest of the Japanese army continued to charge towards the second fence.That kind of bravery without fear of death horrified the already weak North Korean army.

Quan Li personally boarded the tower to supervise the battle. Seeing that the North Korean army was shaken, he decisively ordered the deserters to be killed immediately, and ordered the North Korean army to reorganize the defense.Although the Feitianlei fired by the artillery of the North Korean army had a limited range and average power, they had a relatively large range of damage. In addition, North Korea's defensive facilities such as bed crossbows were very powerful, and the intensive continuous fire of bows and crossbows still made it difficult for the Japanese army to move forward.

The unexpected result is that Ukita Hideka himself fell to the ground with two arrows, and was rescued by his subordinates and dragged out of the formation.This time, the fourth Japanese army saw that the general was injured and retreated, and finally he wanted to retreat, and gradually retreated to the first fence for defense.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Hiroka Yoshikawa of the fifth Japanese army took over and launched an attack immediately. The Japanese and North Korean armies met at the second fence.At this time, the two armies are going all out, each using their own means, whether it is burning lime to smoke, or biting and gouging out eyes.

Quan Li also personally went into battle to fight the Japanese army, and the two armies were at a stalemate.The Hiroshi Yoshikawa family suddenly had an idea, ordered the Japanese army to retreat, and mobilized kerosene and hay to set fire to Xingzhou.

Seeing that the Japanese army was preparing materials for a fire attack, Quan Li hurriedly ordered his subordinates to dig a dam and divert water from the Han River to pour the Japanese army back. After a while, the Japanese army was submerged to the knees. Hiroshi Yoshikawa saw that the fire attack was impossible, and it was even more difficult to attack in the water, so he ordered to retreat. .

After the fifth team was withdrawn, the sixth team Takakage Kobayakawa continued to take over the attack.The sixth team waited for the water to pass a little, covered it with iron cannons, stood loosely, and dispatched a large number of roasted jade to throw bombardments, and soon the second fence was opened.Takakage Kobayakawa ordered an assault, and the North Korean army rushed forward upon seeing the situation, sacrificing themselves to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through.

On the other side, Ming generals Zha Dashou and Mao Guoqi led [-] soldiers and rushed towards Hanyang. After a while, they saw thousands of Japanese troops stationed at the main roads in front of Hanyang.Zha Dashou divided [-] troops and set up artillery behind the mountain to wait for orders. He ordered Mao Guoqi to lead [-] cavalry to lie in ambush, while he personally led [-] fine cavalry to fight out to lure the enemy.

Fukushima Masaaki was so excited when he saw the Ming army killing him, he immediately organized a battle.After the Japanese army was rushed to the outer line by the cavalry of the Ming army for a while, the iron artillery team of the Fukushima army finally fought back. There were many Ming troops, and they ordered to pursue them angrily.

There is no doubt about the next thing. When the Japanese army pursued, the Ming army ambush.This time, all the cavalry of the Ming army possessed Wanli Type II cavalry guns and equipped with new sabers, which combined speed, firepower, range and melee lethality.On the other hand, the Japanese army pursued hastily and did not have time to set up their formations. The two sides shot at each other. Although each had casualties, the Japanese army was clearly at a disadvantage.

During the scuffle between the two armies, Masanori Fukushima still wanted to engage in a "one-horse fight" and personally confront Zha Daishou.As a result, the two slashed at each other with knives, but Masayoshi Fukushima only wanted to kill the general with his own hands, while Cha Dashou only wanted to win the battle.Cha Dashou, who had been distracted to observe and command several times, was beaten down.

Masayoshi Fukushima was about to kill Zha Daishou with a knife, but the experienced Zha Daishou threw a cut-off cloak to cover his sight. Instead, Zha Daishou cut off the horse's leg with a knife and fell off the horse, and his saber fell to the ground.

However, Masayoshi Fukushima was really brave. He picked up a long spear and swung it repeatedly. He turned the gun to attack and chop. On the right side, fortunately, his armor is strong, and the soldiers around him rescued him in time. Fukushima Masa was pinned down by several people, and Zha Dashou was finally able to escape.

After escaping, Zha Dashou saw that the battle situation was in line with expectations, so he ordered the Ming army to retreat immediately, while Fukushima Masaka led his army to continue to chase as expected.

The cavalry of the Ming army had the upper hand and obviously ran faster, but at this time the Japanese army was suddenly bombarded repeatedly, and the mountains on the opposite side seemed to be densely covered with banners and screams of killing.At this moment, the shelling was intensive, shaking the sky, it was Mao Guoqi who ordered the ambush soldiers to come out to meet Cha Dashou.

The southern army's artillery and firearms were matched far and near, and they had a huge advantage. The Japanese army was invincible, and in addition to being ambushed, they were immediately defeated and retreated one after another.Seeing this scene, Fukushima was astonished and thought that the main force of the Ming army might be here, so he immediately sent someone to notify Ukita Hideo's family, and led the troops back to the defense for assistance.

Between the coming and going, the Haengju battle was approaching dusk, the second fence was breached, the North Korean arrows were exhausted, and the people of Haengju used their aprons as pockets to transport stones.The Japanese army continued to attack, and the North Korean army was almost out of ammunition and food. When Quan Li was at his wit's end, he saw many warships coming from the Han River.The soldiers and civilians in Xingzhou rejoiced, and after receiving the aid, they fought back against the Japanese army again.

By sunset, Haengju had repelled nine Japanese attacks and killed nearly [-] enemies.Ukita Hideka became furious, and ordered the whole army to attack again, and he himself went to the front line again regardless of his injuries.Fearing that he would be injured again, a large number of Japanese generals followed him around one after another, while the Japanese arquebus team fired steadily forward.

The rest of the saber warrior team and the ashigaru team still rushed to the bottom of the city and prepared to climb the city. However, Xingzhou's arrows were about to run out again, and many soldiers were killed and injured. Quan Li himself was shot by the Japanese arquebus. Can no longer swing the knife.

Not long after, the city gate of Xingju was finally destroyed by baked jade. The Japanese army was overjoyed and planned to rush in, but the Korean soldiers and civilians fought hard to resist. The city wall and gate of Xingju almost became a sea of ​​corpses and blood.Ukita Hideka murderously ordered the Datong team to come forward, strictly ordering the Japanese army teams to take Xingju with all their might.

While waiting for the collapse of Xingzhou, Ukita Hideo's family received a report that the main force of the Ming army was approaching Hanyang, and the situation was extremely critical!Ukita Hideo's family was taken aback. Although they were extremely unwilling and yelled to vent their anger, they were still forced to abandon Xingju and lead the army back to Hanyang.

When Quan Li saw the Japanese army retreating, he naturally announced that the army and the people celebrated the victory together, and ordered the Japanese army's corpse to be dismantled and placed on a wooden stake for public display. The army and people in Xingzhou rejoiced.However, Quan Li himself was very worried, and said to Master Li Xuan and Master Chuying: "Xingzhou won more with less, and the Japanese army retreated, but our army suffered huge casualties. It is impossible to defend Xingzhou with only the remaining troops. It is difficult to replenish the strength of Hangju immediately, and after this battle, Hangju is already in ruins, in my opinion, we can only abandon Hangju and lead all the soldiers and civilians to retreat to Paju to defend."

Everyone had no objection, so Quan Li led the remnant army and the people to evacuate to Paju in the early morning of the next day.When he withdrew, Xingzhou became an empty city, and it was occupied by the Japanese army not long after.

However, although the Battle of Haengju ended in the Japanese occupation, the Korean army finally withstood the onslaught of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield for the first time, which can be regarded as setting its own record.
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